FireGL 8700 and Radeon HD 2900 XTX - video card comparison

FireGL 8700

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

R200

R600

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2001

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

250 MHz

743 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

Power consumption (TDP)

240 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.000

11.89

Memory type

DDR

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

540 MHz

1656 MBps

Memory bandwidth

8.64 GB/s

106.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

8.1

10.0 (10_0)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

3.3 (full) Shader Model-4.0

Vulkan

N/A